Re: drop Cyrus 1.5 support

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 03:25 PM 9/15/2003, Howard Chu wrote:
>Given that Cyrus 2.1 has been around for quite a while now, and 1.5 has been
>unmaintained for more than a year, I think it would be a good idea to drop
>the 1.5 support from our code. At this point I only see it being a source of
>unnecessary hassles (see ITS#2484 and ITS#2694 for currently known problems
>due to using Cyrus 1.5.27).
>
>Whether we change this in 2.1 (and how) is open in my mind, but we should
>probably eliminate all traces of Cyrus 1.5 support in the OpenLDAP 2.2 code.
>
>Comments?

I suggest:

For 2.2, I suggest we fail if Cyrus SASL 2.1 not available.
For 2.1, I suggest we warn if Cyrus SASL 2.1 not available.
For all documentation, update it to say Cyrus SASL 2.1 is required.

Kurt


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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]
>Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 2:21 PM
>To: Howard Chu
>Subject: RE: re21 CHANGES
>
>
>At 12:48 PM 9/15/2003, Howard Chu wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]
>>
>>> At 12:31 PM 9/15/2003, Howard Chu wrote:
>>> >What do you think of merging these:
>>> >
>>> >Modified Files:
>>> >        cyrus.c  1.89 -> 1.90
>>> >
>>> >Log Message:
>>> >ITS#2484, set sasl_maxbuf to SASL_MAX_BUFF_SIZE if it was negotiated
>>> >as zero.
>>>
>>> Seems odd to me.  Wouldn't that lead to layers being installed
>>> with the buffer length was negotiated to be zero (and hence off)?
>>
>>Maybe the better solution is to withdraw support for Cyrus SASL 1.5.
>
>Okay by me.  But maybe we should discuss this on -devel first.
>
>> ITS#2694
>>(Second instance of slapd segfaults) is also occurring on a Cyrus 1.5.27
>>install.